There is no historical or geographical limit on what can be covered. There is no restriction on the style or genre of song or singing.
Soprano and poet Janani Sridhar discusses the song cycle ‘SingBites’ that she and composer Nicholas Ho wrote as a set of four love songs to Singapore.
Jovana Backović’s haunting music for Ophelia in a production of Hamlet spurred this conversation about her influences and artistic goals.
Coming next fall! PlanetWoman, an innovative program of world premieres by women composers setting poems by women. Zsuzsanna Ardó found her inspiration in writings of Hildegard of Bingen.
Ivana Lang’s Nokturno (Nocturne), one of the most beautiful of her many songs, spurs a look at her life and work.
The dramatic monologue “The Enchantress” was one of several works by Ljubica Marić celebrated in art and music at an event curated by pianist Jasmina Raković.
One year ago one of Serbia’s most distinguished musical voices, Isidora Žebeljan, died. Here are three glimpses of what we have lost.
“My friend, Maja Strozzi, perhaps the most beautiful voice of both hemispheres.” Thomas Mann (Doctor Faustus, chapter 37)
As expressions of motherly love and the pain of mothers who lose their children crossing ethnic, national and religious boundaries, these songs remain universal.
A century ago the new Yugoslav ‘national’ music needed women; two influential women, Maja Strozzi-Pečić and Ivanka Milojević, seized the moment to gain a public voice.
